Documentary film
nisbetmc | March 5, 2010
Chris Palmer, director of the Center for Environmental Filmmaking at American University, argues in an op-ed at CNN.com that the tragic accident at SeaWorld Orlando should draw renewed attention to the ethics and safety of keeping Orcas as captive performing animals for spectators. As Palmer, a veteran of more than 25 years of wildlife filmmaking, writes:
Orcas and other large predators should not be held in captivity unless those doing so can make an overpoweringly persuasive case for it -- mainly that the animal's release into the wild, perhaps after an injury, will mean certain,…
nisbetmc | October 15, 2009This week Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story ($9.9 million) edged past Ben Stein's Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed ($7.7 million) on the list of top grossing political documentaries. For more on the impact and box office success of Expelled, see this past article I contributed to Skeptical Inquirer magazine.
nisbetmc | May 21, 2009
On Monday night, AU's [School of Communication](http://www.american.edu/soc/) sponsored a screening at the Newseum of the 1992 campaign documentary *The War Room* with a panel discussion that included stars George Stephanopoulos, Dee Dee Myers and Paul Begala. The event was part of the [Reel Journalism film series](http://www.newseum.org/events_edu/reel_journalism/) co-sponsored by the School of Communication and the Newseum. The series is hosted by Nick Clooney, veteran broadcast journalist and father of actor George Clooney. The Politico [covered the event](http://www.politico.com/news/…